Law enforcement officials in Maui are racing to locate more than 1,000 people who are reported as missing, two weeks after the catastrophic wildfires began that destroyed the town of Lahaina.
Maui County officials previously said 850 people were missing on Sunday.
The FBI is helping the Maui Police Department go through multiple lists of missing persons from different agencies to determine who is truly unaccounted for.
Law enforcement has located 1,400 people so far out of an initial number of 2,500 people reported missing, Merrill said.
Search teams have gone through 100% of the single-story homes in Lahaina and are now combing multistory residential and commercial buildings in the disaster zone, according to Maui County officials.
Persons:
Nicholas Bartel, Eddie Ruiz, Harper, Steven Merrill, John Pelletier, Merrill
Organizations:
Federal Bureau of Investigation, . Maui Police, FBI, Maui Police Department
Locations:
Lahaina, Maui, Maui County